Peter Baldwin
Biography: Peter Baldwin (1931–2017) was an American director, producer, actor, and screenwriter for television. Baldwin started his career as a contract player at Paramount Studios and eventually became a television director with an extensive résumé. As well as directing every episode of The Brady Bunch, he also directed a few episodes of The Partridge Family from 1970 to 1971. He won an Emmy in 1988 for The Wonder Years.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 11, 1931
Deathday: November 19, 2017
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The Tin Star
1957-10-23
The Tin Star
Overview: An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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The Ghost
1963-03-30
The Ghost
Overview: A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-30
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Teacher's Pet
1958-04-01
Teacher's Pet
Overview: A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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Short Cut to Hell
1957-09-01
Short Cut to Hell
Overview: A hitman is found out because he was paid off in traceable stolen money. On the run, he kidnaps the girlfriend of the police detective in charge of his pursuit; she tries to convince him to surrender before it's too late.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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The Trap
1959-01-28
The Trap
Overview: Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit from the country. Ralph's arrival has a profound effect on his estranged father, the sheriff; his brother Tip, an alcoholic deputy; and his ex-sweetheart Linda, now married to Tip. Tension builds as a small army of gangsters takes over the town. Then the situation abruptly changes...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-28
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Love in Rome
1960-11-24
Love in Rome
Overview: A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-24
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Escape by Night
1960-10-07
Escape by Night
Overview: In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-07
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The Girls of Pleasure Island
1953-04-01
The Girls of Pleasure Island
Overview: In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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The Space Children
1958-06-01
The Space Children
Overview: A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kids start doing the alien's bidding as the adults try to find out what's happening to their unruly offspring.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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Stalag 17
1953-05-29
Stalag 17
Overview: It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-29
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The Weekend Murders
1970-10-15
The Weekend Murders
Overview: An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-15
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The Possessed
1965-07-24
The Possessed
Overview: While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-07-24
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I Married a Monster from Outer Space
1958-10-01
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Overview: Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Desert War
1962-03-03
Desert War
Overview: A woman is discovered in a shelled-out truck in the Libyan Desert by a small group of soldiers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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The Mattei Affair
1972-01-26
The Mattei Affair
Overview: Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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I soliti rapinatori a Milano
1961-09-02
I soliti rapinatori a Milano
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-02
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Little Boy Lost
1953-09-21
Little Boy Lost
Overview: A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-21
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